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Camellias may be iconographic to the south , and grown in southern California , but they also have a rich heritage in New England , where florist grew glasshouses camellias for deletion blossoms and corsages that fill the florist shop class of Boston , New York City and other northerly US metropolis throughout the long winters of the nineteenth hundred .
Camellias are sadly absent today in New England , only grow by a handful of enthusiasts who have cold greenhouses , since they are not stout out - of - doors . Although there are some new cold hardy varieties now available , I ca n’t seem to find anyone who have had luck with them north of southern Connecticut or the tip of Cape Cod , Zone 7 , and even then , the wavering in spring frost seem to still kill them .
Today , Camellias are a glimpse into the past , when viewed in New England . My first camellia was see in an former glass and Sir Henry Wood greenhouse , once known as Holmes Greenhouses , a series of massive drinking glass greenhouses that once populated man smll towns surrounding Boston with violets , rosebush , clove pink and camellias throughout the turn of the hundred , Htese tree diagram , with compact smooth body and glossy green leaves , we ’re nearly 18 metrical unit marvellous , and embed in the ground , against the back of one mansion . We we ’re onyl sent out to the tree diagram when an old lady would ocaisionally call and request a camellia corsage , since the floral supply firm no longe bear camellia , this establishment still could deliver a rare blossom . I would drive down in my fathers station Wain to the Holmes Greenhouses , which we ’re an annex to the more modern house that I worked in , and overstretch out my knife and cut a tray full of the precious pinkish and magenta peak . They seemed so special then , as the wintertime darkness fell early , and the tree diagram ’s we;re only lit up with by the nearby street lights , with flake falling below the lights . I reckon a day when train railway car full of camellias and odoriferous violets fill the carrel of florist in the big east coast cities , long before brigh orange gerbera and neatly dwarf Chrysanthemum morifolium took over .
Of course , in California , especially near Pasadena , Camellias are not such a crowing deal . There , one of the nations bombastic grower , Nuccio ’s Nursery , fills acre with hundreds of clones and species . Whenever I am in the LA area on Business , I always make a head trip to Nucci ’s , where Joe Nuccio is more than happy to mob up a shipment of plants for me to take home . When at Nuccios , wipe out tiffin at the bottom of the J. J. Hill at Kips ( Tacos and Chili Fries to die for ) and then lead over to the Huntington Gardens for a real treat !
I still enjoy a loove involvement with the camellia , and every February , when the vintage camellias and trhe new hybrids bloom , my desk , the menage and my friends all enjoy a little vintage blast to the past times . There is something so nice about having a inhabit piece of history , blossom along buddleia asiatica , and acacia . Buddleia asiatica , a legal tender species , which is scarce , and a winter blooming configuration of the plant we know as butterfly bush , the Buddleia . This fragrant winter botch was a loyalist of the wintertime cut flower trade in New England during the nineteenth century , in fact , Logee ’s Greenhouses in Connecticut , acknowledge today for it ’s wide selections of rare works , set out in the 1800 ’s thier business by suppling the flower market with Buddleia asiatica .
Fragrant plants seem to give thier top in February and March in the frigid greenhouse . Includind Jasmine , Rhododendron fragrantissimum and Citrus flower . essentially , your groovy grandparent ’ 19th C nuptials nosegay if they we ’re matrimonial in the winter .
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